Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.

Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll

  • What happens in the mind of a fine artist is nothing different from that going on in the mind of an expert coder. Both see and thrive in the quintessential nature of patterns.

    Lawrence Mucheka
  • Must be zero, or equal to MAPI_UNICODE. In either case, however, this parameter is ignored.

    MSDN
  • Every truth passes through three stages before it is recognized. In the first, it is ridiculed, in the second it is opposed, in the third it is regarded as self-evident.

    Arthur Schopenhauer
  • If you don't think you're doing great things, you're probably right.

    Anonymous
  • Software Engineering isn't rocket science ... it's harder.

    Anonymous
  • Functions delay binding; data structures induce binding. Moral: Structure data late in the programming process.

    Alan J. Perlis
  • No code is faster than no code.

    Anonymous
  • The question of whether computers can think is just like the question of whether submarines can swim.

    Edsger W. Dijkstra
  • The Internet? Is that thing still around?

    Homer Simpson
  • Don't worry if it doesn't work right. If everything did, you'd be out of a job.

    Mosher's Law of Software Engineering
  • What happens in the mind of a fine artist is nothing different from that going on in the mind of an expert coder. Both see and thrive in the quintessential nature of patterns.

    Lawrence Mucheka